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No. 459,068. Patented Sept. 8., 1891.

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- UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALBERT KASKEL, OF NEV YORK, N. Y.

N E C KTI E SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 459,068, dated September 8, 1891.

Application filed February 9, 1891. $erial No. 380,749- (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT KASKEL, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Neck Ties and Scarfs and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, making a part of this specification.

My invention relates to combination ties and scarfs for mens neck-wear, and has for its object to provide in one complete article a tie which may be readily converted into a flat or a puff scarf and will in effect constitute also anew style of Ascot scarf, which, through its shape and conformation, facilitates and simplifies the tying into a puff knot.

It consists in the combination, with a necktie of customary form having a comparatively narrow neckband and enlarged wide ends, of two auxiliary convergent tabs or aprons severally attached to the tie at points equidistant from the middle of its neckband and near to its points of enlargement, substantially in the manner hereinafter described and claimed.

I11 the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of my improved combination tie and scarf fully opened out. Fig. 2 represents the same in elevation when the tie has been brought together and given the first turn in making a knot therewith. Fig. is a similar view of the device after the ends of the tie have been superimposed at the front and the auxiliary tabs or aprons folded over thereon from each side to form a flat scarf, the dotted lines representing the normal position of the aprons before they are thus folded over. Fig. 4: is a front view of the device, showingthe tie when tied into a square knot; and Fig. 5, the same with the tabs folded over upon the knot to form a puff scarf.

Similar letters indicate like parts in all of the figures.

A, Fig. 1, represents a necktie constructed of a narrow neckband having its ends enlarged, as at B B.

C C are tabs or aprons, preferably rectangular in form, severally attached each at one corner to the front face of the neckband A of the tie near to the enlarged ends thereof. The corner of the tab is made to overlap the cross each other when the device is fully opened out and extended, as shownin Fig. 1; but they may be of equal lengths. The attachment of the tabs to the band may be in permanent form, as by stitching, or be detachable, as by pinning.

In the use of this combination tie and tabs the tie is placed about the neck and secured in the usual manner, either by a simple single twist, of which the first step is illustrated in 2, leaving its ends to hang down one upon the other, as shown in Fig. 3, or by tying it into a square knot, as shown in Fig. at. In either case after the tie has been arranged in eitherstyle the effect of a scarf is obtained by folding the tabs 0 C over from each side across upon the ends 13 B of the tie, so as to produce in the one case the appearance of a flat scarf, (see Fig. 3,) and in the other (see Fig. 5) of a tied scarf or of puff scarfs of different shapes, as the fancy of the wearer may dictate.

It is evident that by simply detaching and removing the tabs the tie may be used by itself and belied in a bow, afour-in-handknot, or a small puif knot, in the customary manner. The device thus provides in one article ready means for producing at will a variety of effects in the forms of several well-known styles of neck-wear.

I claim as my in vention A necktie having a comparatively narrow neckband and enlarged ends and tabs attached to the band to project therefrom in converging lines when the tie is opened out, substan tially in the manner and for the purpose herein set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ALBERT KASKEL.

Vitnesses:

A. N. J ESBERA, E. M. Larson. 

